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sveinemann

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Registered: 2007-09-30

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Running X without xorgconf, but with nvidia driver from nvidia.com?

Hi

I have a 9600GT card. I used the installer found on nvidia.com. It installs just fine. The problem is when starting X, it uses Vesa instead of the nvidia module.

Note: But If i let the nvidia driver installer update the xorg.conf, which I usually wouldn't even need, it works just fine. But I want to run without xorg.conf.

Thanks, and a happy new year.

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: Running X without xorgconf, but with nvidia driver from nvidia.com?

What is the problem with nvidia drivers we got in the repos, why not use them instead?
Did you reboot after installing the driver?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xo … ry_drivers

Any errors in the logs? Can you post /var/log/Xorg.0.log?

Last edited by karol (2010-12-31 09:28:25)

mikesd

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Re: Running X without xorgconf, but with nvidia driver from nvidia.com?

Why not just use nvidia and nvidia-utils from extra?

nvidia-utils includes /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-nvidia.conf that causes xorg to use the nvidia driver.

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karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: Running X without xorgconf, but with nvidia driver from nvidia.com?

Why not just use nvidia and nvidia-utils from extra?

nvidia-utils includes /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-nvidia.conf that causes xorg to use the nvidia driver.

Exactly.

If it still doesn't work, paste your /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-monitor.conf and 20-nvidia.conf.

Mr Green

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Re: Running X without xorgconf, but with nvidia driver from nvidia.com?

Well if your driver works fine then why try to fix it?

Read wiki to help with creating configs to put in xorg.conf.d [even use parts from the working xorg.conf file you have]

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Gusar

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Registered: 2009-08-25

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Re: Running X without xorgconf, but with nvidia driver from nvidia.com?

But I want to run without xorg.conf

Here's a question: Why? Is it an OCD "just because" thing? You could patch xorg-server, it's a simple patch actually to make nvidia the default. But at least to me that's total overkill to the simple solution Arch provides, which is the xorg.conf.d/20-nvidia.conf file.